Marxist view of education sociologists

Question 1

Althusser (1971)

Answer 1

How to keep the bourgeoisie in power :
• The repressive state apparatuses (RSA) = maintain the rule of the bourgeoisie by force or the threat of it. Includes police , courts and army.
• The ideological state apparatuses (ISA) = maintain the rule of the bourgeoise by controlling people’s ideas , values and beliefs . Includes religion , media and education system
- Education reproduces class inequality by transmitting it from generation to generation.
- Education legitimises class inequalities by producing ideologies

Question 2

Bowles and Ginitis (1976)

Answer 2

Study of 237 New York high school students .
- Schoolinf helps to produce obedient workers that capitalism needs.
- Do not believe that education fosters personal development.

Question 3

Willis (1977)

Answer 3

Study of 12 Working class boys - lads’ counter culture
• Lads form a distinct counter- culture opposed to the school.
- Lads find school boring and meaningless and flout its rules and values.
- Similarity between the lads’ anti school counter culture and the culture of male manual workers.